Xv, 145 Pp. Illustrated Cloth. First Printing. Near Fine (Wear And Small Abrasiio Alog Bottom Edge Of Each Cover) In Near Fine Dj Priced $14.95, Two 1/2" Closed Tears At Top Edges. No Marks.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Logging the Redwoods

Publisher

Caxton Printers, Caldwell

Publication Date

1975

Language

English

ISBN 10

087004236X

ISBN 13

9780870042362

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Printing

1st Printing

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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Synopsis

The story of the California redwood lumber industry also tells the stories of the men, the trains, and the land. Illustrations are outstanding for a vast collection of old historical photographs fill the pages. This is a MUST book for the historian, the railroad buff, and the timber enthusiast.

About the Author

Lynwood Carranco was born in Samoa, Humboldt County, California (a former Hammond Lumber Company town). He graduated from Eureka High School and Humboldt State College, and received the M.A. degree from Columbia University and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Sarasota.

He spent time working in the mills and woods, and wrote many articles for scholarly journals on language, history, and folklore. He was the author of The Redwood Country: History and Language, and Folklore and Fundamentals of Modern English, a college remedial text. He was widely known as a reviewer of books on Northern California and the Northwest for Journal of the West and The California Historical Society Quarterly.

Mr. Carranco was Associate Professor of English at Humboldt State College (now Humboldt State University), then Head of the English Department, College of the Redwoods, Eureka, California. Carranco married the former Ruth Cannam of Eureka. Their two sons are Bob and Don. The family home is near Arcata, where Mrs. Carranco still resides.

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